Improvement in billiard-table cushions



G. E. PHELAN.

Billiard Table cushions.

N0. 136,178.' v Y Patented Feb.2 5,1873.

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GEORGEv E. PHELAN,OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT I N BlLLlARD-.TABLE CUSHIONS.

` Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,178, dated February .25, 1873.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE E. PHELA'N, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cushions for Billiard-Tables; and I do hereby declare the following to be a true, full, and

Y correct description of the construction and also, a durability not obtainedby the cushions now in use. l

In order to enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same in its mode of construction and operation.

Figure 1 represents a portion of a billiardtable, showing the bed of the same A, the side B screwed to the bed, and the position of the cushion C, fastened toits bed D by either screws or wire, or any other "obvious and convenient manner. `The cushion G is a metallic spring, of what is called a U or V shape, running around the whole of the length and 'width of the billiard-table, constructed preferably of the most elastic metallic material, the outer side of which being covered with the usual cloth lining; the upper and inner end of the spring, against which the billiard-balls impingc in their movements around the table, is left free and unattached to any portion of the frame-work of the table, and is of such a sensitive and elastic nature as to receive without injury the balls that may be forced against it, giving great activity to the rebound, and causing a much greater length of cushion being brought into action than by the usual mode o t' construction. If under certain circumstances a greater amount of elastic power is desired to be given to the billiard-cushion, I can also apply the same by constructing an India-rubber spring or bed, F, conforming to the shape of the U or V shaped metallic spring, and into which such spring may be placed and adjusted in the manner shownin Figs. 2 and 3,

and the whole attached to the spring or cuslb ion-plate in any convenient manner, the India-rubber spring or bed F being of the same. length of the metallic U or V shaped springs, into which they may be placed.

In the drawing, Fig. l is a perspective view of a portion of a billiard-table, showing the subject-matter of my invention as applied to the same. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same in the U-shaped form; Fig. 3, a crosssection in the V-shaped form, both of the latter gures showing the metallic spring surrounded by the spring or bed made of India rubber.

In this drawing, A represents the bed ofthe table; B, a portion of the frame-work screwed to the bed, to which is attached the billiardcushions in the usual manner. Gis ametallic spring or cushion, surroundin g the whole table, and adjusted to the wooden cushion bed-plate D. F is the India-rubber spring or bed, surrounding the metallic spring O, both of which are of the same shape, configuration, and length. Gis the table-cloth, covering the bed and cushions, adjusted in the usual manner; and H, the billiard-ball in contact with the cushion or` spring. The metallic spring or cushion can be used independently of the rubber spring or bed, which mode of application I prefer, but may adopt both in practice when desired.

Vhat. I claim as my invention, and desire Witnesses EDM. F. BROWN, B. F. J AMES. 

